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NARRATOR: Legendary weapons of mass destruction.

Incredible technology bestowed by otherworldly forces.

And modern military capabilities

that mirror the arsenal of the gods.

For nearly two decades,

Ancient Aliens has traveled the globe,

exploring towering megalithic structures,

mysterious artifacts

and stories of otherworldly beings

in a quest for evidence that might reveal the truth

of our extraterrestrial origins.

People thousands of years ago

would have never known about heat-seeking missiles

and stealth bombers.

NARRATOR: Now we take a look back

through the Ancient Aliens archives

to the show's very origins

to examine the evidence that we are not alone.

We have never been alone.

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As we look back at our vast Ancient Aliens library,

one of the things we talked about in every episode

is technology. Because according to the ancient astronaut theory,

the extraterrestrials

shared their technology with our ancestors.

And with technology comes weaponry.

-Right. -And that means harnessing fire

to work with metals.

And before that, we were maybe hitting each other with sticks

and stones or something.

But once we could harness fire

and work with metals, that meant

we could make swords.

And not only did our ancestors say

that fire was a gift from the gods but,

all around the globe, people started to develop metallurgy

at about the same time.

How do you explain that?

They weren't supposed to be in contact with one another.

We covered this in a season three episode

called "Aliens and Deadly Weapons."

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NARRATOR: Earth.

4.5 billion years ago.

Molten hot magma spews from beneath the ground.

Lightning cracks down in bursts from the sky.

And rivers of lava flow across the land.

Ever since the dawn of time,

our planet has been changing,

evolving,

and ripped apart by the awesome forces of nature.

And it's the harnessing of that nature

that has offered mankind its most formidable challenge

and greatest accomplishment.

Mankind achieving the ability to manipulate fire

is probably the most historical event that ever happened.

When we achieved the ability to master fire,

everything changed for mankind.

NARRATOR: But how did our ancestors learn to re-create

and harness this most volatile and ultimately essential

of the Earth's elements?

Was it simply a part of our intellectual evolution?

Or is it possible that the knowledge came

from another, more otherworldly origin?

When we look at fire, we imagine this idea

that somehow our ancestors are rubbing some sticks together.

But each culture always says

that fire is a gift from the gods.

SOUTHWELL: In Native American traditions, quite often

its fire was stolen from the world above.

In Maori legends, again,

we see the theft of fire from the gods.

In the Greek legends,

it's Prometheus stealing fire from the gods.

NARRATOR: How is it that such similar myths exist

about fire being given to man by the gods?

According to ancient astronaut theorists,

this eerie similarity may actually be evidence that gods,

or perhaps extraterrestrial beings,

really do exist.

And if so, it might also reveal

how mankind eventually used fire

to create deadlier and more sophisticated weapons.

SOUTHWELL: If we are talking about ancient aliens having an impact,

where would we expect to see that impact?

I would expect to see it in metalworking.

And do we actually see hard and fast evidence

of mankind making sudden huge leaps in metalworking?

Yes, we do.

TSOUKALOS: We go from attaching sharp stones

to the ends of sticks

and then, all of a sudden,

we have actual swords.

NARRATOR: According to archaeologists,

the first human work with metal weaponry

began in the Bronze Age,

beginning around 3300 BC in the Near East.

Most of the swords at one time were either copper or iron.

MICHAEL DENNIN: If you think about it, the ages, we started first with bronze,

nickel, softer things that are easier to work with.

The reason we don't have iron as our first example

is because it's a much harder material.

You have to get much hotter fire to be able to work with it,

and it's just a tougher material to work with.

RAFAEL KOSCHE: They were fighting, bashing each other with these swords.

They wanted a tough sword,

which means it was not always very sharp.

When these people were fighting,

when they're hacking each other's heads and arms off,

they were ripping each other's heads and arms off

with blunt pieces of metal.

(yelling)

NARRATOR: Approximately 1,000 years

after the development of iron

came another, even greater breakthrough.

The invention of steel.

IMBROGNO: No one really knows when people first started making steel.

Some say it only dates, uh, 1000 BC.

To make a steel sword in ancient times was not an easy task.

You would have to get high-quality iron.

And most of the time, they could not get that iron

mined from the earth.

And meteorites were obtained,

which were pure iron,

which made the best steel swords.

These were considered magic swords.

And it was usually a guarded secret,

and villages would have one or two steel swords.

And there's tales about warlords who had one purpose in mind.

To find all the steel swords that were made...

...and take them for their army.

There's no doubt that cultures that were able to obtain steel

usually became masters of the world.

(yelling)

NARRATOR: But where the forging of iron

requires a relatively unsophisticated knowledge

of metallurgy,

the creation of steel

is a more complex scientific process.

So who or what was responsible

for this incredible evolutionary innovation?

IMBROGNO: In the Book of Enoch,

we see some type of interaction

between celestial beings and human beings.

What did they give us?

They gave us steel.

And the legend goes

not only from the Bible and from Enoch

but it goes to Sumerian times,

where the gods had steel.

JONATHAN YOUNG: The making of the sword is a magical process.

Back in the time before modern metallurgy,

the ability to take natural material

and make a sword out of it was considered the work of a wizard.

(speaking German, translated): You mustn't look the village blacksmith

in the eyes,

because people are frightened

of being killed by his gaze.

A blacksmith isn't allowed to live in the village

because of his magical powers.

NARRATOR: The notion of metalworking being a dark and magical process

was so prevalent in the ancient world

that, in Greek mythology,

even Zeus looked upon his son Hephaestus,

the god of metallurgy, with suspicion.

RICHARD RADER: Hephaestus is responsible for making armature for the gods.

But the real miracle that he does

is for this shield for Achilles.

And it's got the whole universe on it.

What's amazing about this thing

is that it's not just a static shield.

It's alive.

This is not something that a human being makes.

This is terrifying and this is scary

and this thing will kill you,

just in its own kind of metaphysical beauty.

And so he has this weird ability to kind of endow metal

with a kind of life of its own.

So, Zeus is in fact very suspicious of this guy

and just tries to get rid of him.

So, Zeus picks him up and slings him

and he just falls and falls and falls and falls and falls

until he crash-lands on the island of Lemnos.

There is a little city on the island of Lemnos

called Hephaestia.

So there's a place that is named specifically after Hephaestus.

NARRATOR: 3,000 years ago,

Hephaestia was one of the most important cities in Greece.

And according to the ancient stories,

Hephaestus actually lived here among the people of Lemnos.

The Greeks worshipped this divine blacksmith

and built monuments to him.

But could this mythological being

have actually been present in ancient Greece?

And if so, might he have been not a god...

...but an ancient alien visitor?

RADER: Greek mythology, you conceive of gods

as kind of like human beings.

We have lots of literature which deals with the whole range

of interactions that human beings can have with gods.

It is very clearly stated

that the knowledge for making swords

was given directly by the gods.

And those gods weren't figments of our ancestors' imagination

but they were physical beings.

NARRATOR: Is it really possible that our ancestors' ability

to forge metals and make weapons

was aided by extraterrestrial beings?

And might stories of swords imbued with magical powers

be something more than mere works of fiction?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe the answer

can be found half a world away,

in Japan.

NARRATOR: Japan, 700 AD.

Here, according to legend,

the swordsmith Amakuni and his son Amakura

sealed themselves away in their blacksmith shop

in an effort to forge the perfect weapon.

For seven days and seven nights,

they prayed to the Shinto gods to guide them.

Thirty-one days later,

they emerged from their isolation

with a curved, single-edged sword

resembling no blade ever made before.

KOSCHE: At that time, the swords that they used

were these double-edged Chinese design,

clunky, heavy, unwieldy swords.

And Amakuni started reestablishing

and learning everything that he knew about metallurgy.

And after about a month,

he finally emerged from his forge,

and he had this single-edged blade

with a curvature to it.

Every swordsmith in the area ridiculed him,

everybody laughed at him, they thought he was ridiculous,

they didn't know what he was doing.

"That's not the way you do it."

Well, the next time the emperor went off into battle...

(shouting)

...when he came back, Amakuni stood on his front porch

and he started counting the blades--

two, ten, 15, 20, 100, 200 blades--

none of them were broken.

And the emperor praised him and said,

"You are the greatest swordsmith ever."

Ever since then, they have followed that design.

NARRATOR: But what was the secret

behind Amakuni's radical new design?

And what, or who, inspired him to deviate

from the one that had been used for more than a thousand years?

Was he simply ahead of his time?

Or could he really have received otherworldly guidance

during the seven days and nights

he and his son prayed to the Shinto gods?

KOSCHE: The history of the Japanese sword

is a long and varied history,

all the way back to mythological beliefs

that Omikami the sun goddess,

gave her grandson a sword

when she sent him down to rule over the Earth.

NARRATOR: According to the beliefs of the samurai,

higher beings called kami began human life.

But in order for humans to experience

the divine nature of the kami,

they must undergo purification rituals,

which were always performed when making a new blade.

KOSCHE: Before you even begin,

you bathe yourself and you put on clean clothes.

All your assistants give prayers,

and they solicit the help from the gods.

And, in fact, there are swordsmiths

that will actually chant

as they're hammering on the blade...

...because every hammer, as it compacts the metal,

is also including their chant into it.

NARRATOR: Could the sword maker Amakuni and his son Amakura

have actually come in contact with the kami?

And might these Buddhist gods

have come not from a spiritual realm

but from an extraterrestrial one,

as ancient astronaut theorists believe?

Might alien beings have chosen Amakuni,

the greatest sword maker of his time,

to hold the knowledge of this new technology?

COPPENS: When you give certain, very powerful objects to people,

you need to have extremely intelligent people to use them.

And so, what we find, everywhere,

is that even if the gods had given

the most extraordinary machine,

including fire or any other piece of technology,

you would have to have somebody able

to operate it, a highly-trained human being.

NARRATOR: Another example of Amakuni's work--

the Kogarasu Maru blade,

the most legendary sword in Japanese history--

resides in the Japanese Imperial Collection.

But modern scholars and scientists

have had difficulty in figuring out the secret

to its amazing strength.

DENNIN: The famous stories are always, of course,

the Japanese steel used for the samurai blades.

It's been very hard to reproduce because some of these processes

can be incredibly sensitive to the exact detail

of the temperature.

Some of its features are just its flexibility

and the way they were able to fold it over and over,

and its incredible strength and its resistance to oxidation,

which is what you really need to keep something sharp.

NARRATOR: Could the fact that modern sword makers

have been unable to achieve the same quality

as Amakuni's blades be further evidence

that he was trained by a more advanced race of beings?

And might these ancient swords have held some technology

we have yet to discover?

KOSCHE: In Shingon Buddhism,

the sword has a life of its own.

It's not that the samurai selects the blade.

Is the samurai, more appropriately,

good enough for the blade?

Does the blade choose him?

NARRATOR: Is the philosophy of Shingon Buddhism--

that the blade chooses its owner--

simply an example of early humans' tendency

to project spiritual consciousness

onto inanimate objects?

Or might ancient swordsmiths like Amakuni

really have possessed some otherworldly knowledge?

A knowledge that swords, like other deadly weapons,

come not from man but from a divine

or extraterrestrial origin?

According to legend,

one such sword may have existed in 15th century France--

the sword of Joan of Arc.

KATHLEEN McGOWAN: When Joan of Arc was arrested and brought

to what we now know of as her condemnation trial,

her inquisitors were determined

to get information about her sword.

Her inquisitors were obsessed

with finding out about her sword,

and that is because Joan of Arc's sword

was reputed to have legendary power, divine power.

Joan claimed that her voices,

her angelic voices, led her to this sword.

COPPENS: She's said to have found it, as it was,

hidden behind an altar

dedicated to Sainte-Catherine-de-Fierbois.

It is said that the sword itself was forged

by the archangel Saint Michael.

And that whoever possessed it was invincible.

McGOWAN: And that was certainly true when Joan wielded this sword,

carried it with her into the battle of Orléans...

...which was the decisive battle which allowed them

to put King Charles VII on the throne of France.

NARRATOR: Could Joan of Arc

really have been given her invincible sword

by extraterrestrials

who had an interest in the future of France?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe such a thing

is not only possible but likely.

And they point to the legendary story

of King Arthur as evidence of their claim.

CHILDRESS: King Arthur had two swords.

The sword in the stone,

that showed that he was to be king, is one sword.

TSOUKALOS: When I hear a story

about this magnificent sword

that's encased in this stone

with only the handle sticking out,

and only King Arthur has the capability to pull it out,

well, then I start thinking

about some type of a biometric security system...

...where, today, we now have guns

that can only be fired

if the handle recognizes your fingerprint.

Is it possible that the sword in the stone

was calibrated specifically

to King Arthur's biometrics?

I think yes.

I know it sounds crazy.

We're merely saying that what today is being discovered

is a rediscovery of what already took place

thousands of years ago.

NARRATOR: According to the stories of King Arthur,

the sword that he is said to have pulled from the stone

was never used in battle.

His weapon was the legendary Excalibur.

CHILDRESS: The Excalibur sword came to him

from the Lady in the Lake,

where a hand came up and handed him a magical sword.

And according to the ancient chronicles,

this sword shone with the light of 30 suns

and blinded his enemies.

FIEBAG (speaking German, translated): This sword of King Arthur

was said to have radiated lightning and energy

when he fought against monsters.

So, we have swords as magical objects,

but here, also, is the suspicion

that a misunderstood technology could exist.

NARRATOR: Although historians still debate whether the stories

of King Arthur have a basis in fact,

in 1998, archeologists found a sixth century piece of slate

inscribed with his name

at his reputed birthplace, Tintagel, England.

But if King Arthur really existed,

might the legends of his incredible swords also be true?

And if so, might that suggest

that extraterrestrial visitors did, in fact,

provide humans with weapons not of this world?

Perhaps the answer can be found in ancient Rome,

and by examining a legendary battle,

one involving a much-witnessed phenomenon in the sky.

When we look at ancient stories from around the world,

sometimes the gods are teaching us humans

skills that they can use to develop our own weapons.

Other times, it's like they're giving us

their own alien weapons.

-Right. -CHILDRESS: A great example of this

is what the ancient Romans called

-Greek fire. -Mm-hmm.

Which they said was given to us by angels.

-Right. -And it's this intense fire

that would burn underwater.

TSOUKALOS: Right, and even historians

say that this was a real weapon at some point.

The problem is, we can't figure out what it was

and also, we cannot replicate it

with modern technology.

NARRATOR: Rome, October 27th, 312 AD.

At the Milvian Bridge on the north side of the city,

deposed emperor Constantine

prepares to reclaim his throne from Maxentius.

In the sky, he witnesses what he will later describe

as a cross hovering above him.

He interprets this vision as a sign from the Christian God.

(shouting)

The next day,

Constantine and his army

bear the image of the Chi-Rho on their shields and flags,

one of the earliest cruciform symbols used by Christians.

When they emerge victorious,

Christianity becomes the official religion

of the Roman Empire,

and the world is changed forever.

But was the cross-shaped object

Constantine claimed to have seen in the sky

really a sign from God?

Or might it have been some other extraordinary force?

BRAMLEY: It looked like they were in the shape of a cross,

but the shape of a cross could have been airplane-type objects,

because the fuselage and the wings will look like a cross

to somebody who's looking up.

And of course, they had no concept

of these things back then.

There were other signs and portents

that were seen around the same time

that were described as a crucifix in the sky.

If these were to appear in the sky today,

we would describe them quite differently.

TSOUKALOS: Is it possible that Constantine,

instead of actually having seen a cross floating in the sky,

actually saw a type

of an extraterrestrial craft?

Is it possible that Constantine won

because the extraterrestrials were siding with Constantine

and thus altering mankind's history forever?

NARRATOR: But according to ancient astronaut theorists,

even stronger evidence exists that Emperor Constantine

had a genuine alien encounter.

Shortly after the Battle of Milvian Bridge,

he was said to have acquired a powerful new weapon.

Known as Greek fire,

it was the most devastating weapon of the time.

And it was said to have been given to Constantine by angels.

IMBROGNO: It was said to burn so violently and so hot,

it was said that even in the greatest of rainstorms,

the fire would not go out.

And when projected out to sea, when it sunk into the water,

it would still burn on the bottom of the ocean.

(speaking German, translated): In one battle, Byzantium was attacked

by 1,800 Persian ships.

Only 15 escaped.

All the others were destroyed by the so-called Greek fire.

And Prince Igor, who attacked Byzantium in the year 941 AD,

attacked with a fleet of 1,000 ships.

Only ten ships made it home.

NARRATOR: But perhaps even more astounding

than the incredible power of Greek fire

is the fact that scientists

have not been able to reproduce it,

even after 1,600 years.

Scientists have been trying to identify

what Greek fire is for decades, if not centuries.

Nobody has come up with a satisfying answer.

The most logical answer

is that it might be, somehow, petroleum,

because it is known that petroleum continues to burn

when in contact with water.

I think it has to do with phosphorus and magnesium,

because when they are mixed in with water,

they tend to explode.

NARRATOR: The formula for Greek fire

was not even known to most of those who'd used the weapon,

as the delivery system required multiple people to operate it.

What's interesting about Greek Fire

is that it only worked

when all the different components

worked together as one piece.

Each component was operated by a different person,

so if somebody was captured, they couldn't give away

the quote-unquote "secret of Greek fire."

NARRATOR: But what was this mysterious weapon?

And more importantly, where did it come from?

TSOUKALOS: One story goes that Greek fire

was given to Constantine by an angel.

Now, angels are supposed to be these friendly creatures

that instill peace and love,

and all of a sudden, we have this one quote-unquote "angel"

that gives one of the most sophisticated weapons

in mankind's history to Constantine?

Replace the word "angel" with "extraterrestrial,"

and we have a very different story.

NARRATOR: Could Greek fire really have been a type

of advanced alien technology given to Constantine

to ensure the success of the Roman Empire?

If so, wouldn't there be evidence

of extraterrestrial influence during other Earthly conflicts?

(speaking German, translated): Hannibal, who crossed the Alps

and attacked Rome,

was said to have had a chemical explosive.

We don't know where the knowledge came from

in these cases,

but there could definitely be a connection

to other weapons of the gods.

NARRATOR: The explosive weapon Hannibal allegedly used

against ancient Rome in the third century BC

predated gunpowder by over a thousand years.

And some believe even gunpowder itself may have been a discovery

inspired by otherworldly beings back in the ninth century.

Ironically, this deadly invention

was discovered by Chinese alchemists

attempting to create an elixir of immortality.

Alchemy has a long history in China.

And the alchemist Tze had been seeking

elixir of immortality.

The medicine, for example, to live forever.

So, they were experimenting for many centuries,

and mixed all kind of things and

it was not until around the 850 Common Era,

and we have records to show

the disastrous impact of this mixing.

NARRATOR: Though the Chinese emperors

never achieved this elixir for immortality,

they ended up with something almost as valuable:

a weapon more powerful than anything that had come before.

SUN: The Chinese gunpowder technology

led to this important political and this geographical changes

in China, in Vietnam, in Southeast Asia.

It led to the-- even the rise and the fall of dynasties.

NARRATOR: But where did such an incendiary ability come from?

Was the formula given to us by extraterrestrials

or did somebody discover it by accident?

No one really knows.

Gunpowder was made of charcoal,

which they burnt trees and ground down the charcoal.

Sulfur, they would get from volcanoes,

and sodium or potassium nitrate

is not readily available.

So how would they know to get those nitrates

and mix them all together in the right proportions?

NARRATOR: Could the formula for gunpowder

really have extraterrestrial origins?

And if deadly technologies like gunpowder and Greek fire

really were handed down to humans by an alien race, why?

Might they have been trying to shape our future?

When you talk about aliens giving knowledge to mankind,

you have to ask how they would do that.

And one answer is

that they would chose certain individuals

to give them knowledge

that would help advance mankind.

Right, and one of the great examples

of a story like this can be found in the Bible

with the story of Enoch,

who was taken up in a fiery chariot

and then he was imparted information

which he then later shared

-with humanity. -HENRY: Yeah.

And then you have the great inventors

like Leonardo da Vinci.

He said he received ideas

by staring into a flickering candle.

Futuristic weapons

like machine guns and tanks.

We covered this in a season two episode

called "Alien Devastations."

NARRATOR: 2005.

Florence, Italy.

Beyond a hidden staircase

in the Santissima Annunziata convent,

researchers from Italy's Military Geographical Institute

discover the secret workshop of Leonardo da Vinci.

WILCOCK: He was the true archetypal Renaissance man.

Brilliant painter, brilliant inventor,

brilliant poet, ambidextrous, could write

with his left hand and his right hand at the same time.

Wrote backwards instead of forwards.

A very interesting guy.

NARRATOR: Though da Vinci is renowned for his public paintings

like the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper,

ancient astronaut theorists are more intrigued

by his private notebooks that contain sketches

of futuristic military technology,

including machine guns,

tanks, helicopters

and even submarines.

WILCOCK: It clearly seems that Leonardo da Vinci was

privy to a series of secrets that had been handed down

for many, many thousands of years.

Da Vinci may also have actually been contacted

by humanlike extraterrestrials

who either spoke to him in person

or perhaps telepathically

and inspired him to do so many different things.

BRAMLEY: We do know, for example,

that one of his inventions was a circular car.

Looks kind of like a UFO.

Now, he's also into inventing weapons.

And did that come from the fact that

the UFO has demonstrated,

basically, some aggressiveness,

and did some of that maybe in some way rub off on him?

WILCOCK: Were they trying to give him weapons

that could be used to destroy life on Earth?

That could have been possible.

NARRATOR: But if Leonardo da Vinci did have knowledge

of advanced weaponry,

might he have learned of it through observation and study?

Or was this knowledge given to him by another,

perhaps extraterrestrial source?

TSOUKALOS: There is this book of prophecies,

which is a very rare book,

and in there are some type of descriptions

that could indicate some type

of an extraterrestrial visitation.

There are references in which da Vinci himself says

that he's had these encounters,

these visions of God and angels.

And of course,

according to the ancient astronaut hypothesis,

that wasn't God, it wasn't angels.

They were extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that over the centuries,

extraterrestrials have been partnering

with human collaborators?

Human beings entrusted

with the kind of advanced scientific knowledge

that would allow mankind

to leap over centuries of normal intellectual evolution?

To ancient astronaut theorists,

the fact that mankind had gone from the horse and buggy

to the moon in less than 100 years

makes such a notion

not only possible but entirely probable.

In our development, all of a sudden

we've made a quantum leap

where we were sitting in caves munching on bananas

and the next thing we do is we're building pyramids.

Virtually overnight.

And so that quantum leap can be explained

with a direct extraterrestrial intervention of our past.

And the visitors are the ones who are revered as gods,

who seem to come on flying shields

or silver boats

or any of the various descriptions

of extraterrestrial technology

that you see in these ancient legends.

And they consistently are trying to cultivate humanity

in a direction that's beneficial for everyone.

NARRATOR: There are many who believe

extraterrestrial visitors might have provided

intellectual inspiration to men like Albert Einstein,

whose theories of relativity opened the door

for the possibility of future travels

through space and time.

J. Robert Oppenheimer,

whose research in the field of theoretical physics

resulted in the development of atomic weapons.

Wernher von Braun, whose innovations

in advanced rocket technology

led to the modern-day space program.

COPPENS: When we look into the lives and the motivations

as to Wernher von Braun and to why he wanted

to take mankind into outer space,

we're confronted with the fact

that he was absolutely convinced that we had gone there before

or that an ancient civilization had come from there to Earth.

These people were motivated and, specifically,

they wanted to take us to space because they were convinced

that somehow they would find something

which would completely change planet Earth.

NARRATOR: Then there is Nikola Tesla,

whose experiments with electricity

led to everything from satellite technology

and robotics

to what some would term a death ray.

DAVID SEREDA: But the Tesla death ray,

Tesla said could annihilate an army of 100,000 soldiers at once

and could melt an aircraft engine

from 250 miles away.

When the FBI investigated Tesla's murder,

they found documentation

that the Tesla death ray was in development

at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in 1943.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, 1943?

Where was the Roswell flying saucer taken?

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

So, we have a connection to that weapon.

NARRATOR: Is it possible

that Nikola Tesla's scientific achievements

could have been influenced by alien intelligence?

Might other human geniuses throughout time

have served as human gateways,

allowing extraterrestrials to jump-start

our technological advances?

If the answer is yes, then what are we being prepared for?

And might there be a connection between mankind's intellectual

and scientific advancements

and the otherworldly weapons of warfare

that existed in our ancient past?

When talking about the ancient accounts

of the weapons of the gods,

what stands out to me are the numerous descriptions

of what sounds like the use of atomic or nuclear weapons.

And we have the ancient Vedic texts of India,

which talk about the Brahma weapon

that could level entire cities.

And the evidence for this is

the massive explosion at Mohenjo Daro,

which vitrified the brick walls with intense heat.

Yeah, and it's also fascinating

that the creator of the atom bomb,

Dr. Robert Oppenheimer,

is known to have studied the ancient Vedic texts.

In fact, we covered this in season one of Ancient Aliens.

NARRATOR: Alamogordo, New Mexico.

White Sands proving ground. July 16, 1945.

Early in the morning,

a number of U.S. military officers and scientists gather

to watch a powerful new weapon being tested.

Some believe the device will be a complete failure.

Others think it might destroy the entire State of New Mexico.

As a precaution, viewing stations are placed

from ten to 20 miles away from the test site.

At precisely 5:29 and 45 seconds,

the first atomic bomb is detonated.

MAN: Three, two, one,

fire.

The blast emits a fireball over 600 feet wide

and produces an explosion equal to 20,000 tons of TNT.

The mushroom cloud reaches over seven miles in height

and the reverberations can be felt nearly 100 miles away.

The world had a new weapon:

one so terrifying it left even its creator,

Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, shocked and shaken.

OPPENHEIMER: Few people laughed.

Few people cried.

Most people were silent.

NARRATOR: For the first time in its history,

the Earth had been assaulted by a man-made weapon

of incredible power.

But what if it had all happened before?

What if an explosion

of even greater force and destructiveness

had long ago shaped the Earth's history?

Some people have suggested

on the basis of a number of lines of evidence

that there may have been atomic warfare, atomic bombs,

atomic explosions, in the very distant past.

NARRATOR: Atomic warfare among ancient civilizations

may sound like something out of a science fiction novel,

but descriptions of similar deadly occurrences

can be found in the very same text

Dr. Oppenheimer quoted after the New Mexico atomic test.

OPPENHEIMER: I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture,

the Bhagavad Gita.

"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

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NARRATOR: Part of an ancient Hindu scripture

known as the Mahabharata,

the Bhagavad Gita was written sometime

between the fifth and second century BC.

This massive 100,000-verse text

contains stories about the ancient empire of Rama,

which, it is said, existed over 12,000 years ago

or roughly 5,000 years before

the earliest recorded civilization in Mesopotamia.

TSOUKALOS: If you read the ancient Indian epics,

they read like modern-day science fiction,

yet they're thousands of years old

with references not only of flying chariots

and of these gods that had

these incredible technological capabilities,

but incredible weapons

that they used in those epic battles.

NANCY RED STAR: They had what was called a Brahma weapon.

There were many people that were singed and burned

and melted by the Brahma weapon.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists believe

the Brahma weapon was an early nuclear device

because the descriptions of its deadly aftereffects

are eerily similar to the effects

of exposure to intense radiation.

It is a theory largely discounted

by conventional science.

There is no evidence

that a nuclear bomb was described

in the Mahabharata, the Bhagavad Gita.

It describes a battle.

In battles, there are explosions.

It's one thing about suggesting

that, you know, battles have explosions.

But that's not really what we're looking at.

You got to look at the whole picture.

One reference that we have, for example,

speaks of these explosions

that were brighter than a thousand suns.

And when these blasts occurred,

the suns were twirling in the air,

trees went up in flames

and there was just this mass destruction.

After those blasts, people who survive

start to lose their hair and nails start to fall out.

I mean, right there, we have a concise reference

to radiation poisoning, nuclear fallout.

And those texts are thousands of years old.

NARRATOR: But if the Mahabharata is based on fact,

wouldn't archaeologists have uncovered

physical or radiological evidence?

According to ancient astronaut theorists, they have.

The Indus Valley, Southern Pakistan.

In 1922,

an officer with an Indian archeological survey group

discovered the ruins of an ancient city

known as Mohenjo Daro.

According to mainstream archeologists,

the city, whose name means "mound of the dead,"

had flourished between 2600 and 1900 BC.

However, scientists in Pakistan

have suggested Mohenjo Daro is much older.

Mainstream archeologists believe the city was abandoned

as a result of climatic changes, or possibly a decrease in trade.

But when the ruins of Mohenjo Daro

were discovered in the 1920s...

...44 skeletons were found lying face down in the street,

many holding hands.

Their faces and body positioning

suggested they suffered a sudden, violent death.

COPPENS: You have a culture of people who literally

were lying dead in the street.

Archaeologists have found human remains.

And something big has happened to these people.

NARRATOR: What, in fact, did happen to the people of Mohenjo Daro?

Why is there evidence that wild animals

avoided scavenging their remains?

And why, even after thousands of years,

had their bones not decayed?

TSOUKALOS: In certain areas of that site,

you find increased levels of radiation.

And radiation exists all over the place.

When, all of a sudden, you have higher levels of radiation

in certain areas of the world,

the question arises: why?

NARRATOR: Is it possible that Mohenjo Daro

was one of the cities mentioned in the Bhagavad Gita?

A city that suffered the equivalent

of a sudden atomic attack?

In his 1979 book,

Atomic Destruction in 2000 BC,

British researcher David Davenport

claimed to have found a 50-yard-wide epicenter

at Mohenjo Daro where everything appeared

to have been fused through a transformative process

known as vitrification.

TSOUKALOS: Vitrification is a process

in which regular type stone

gets molten into a magma state

and then it hardens again.

But once the stone is hardened again,

it feels like glass.

At Mohenjo Daro, we find evidence of vitrification,

which could have only been achieved

if the material was exposed to extreme heat

by some type of a blast.

NARRATOR: Could the strange ruins found in the Indus Valley

really contain evidence of an ancient atomic explosion?

If so, where did these powerful weapons come from?

Who was using them? And why?

I've written about the weapons

described in the ancient Vedic texts

in many of my books.

And what amazes me is that these descriptions

of these weapons are very similar

to what our modern military is using today.

Yeah, like heat-seeking missiles and stealth bombers.

I mean, it goes without saying that people

from thousand years ago

would have never known about this

unless they witnessed some sort of advanced civilization.

Right. So, you have to be open to ask the question.

Were they describing some kind of alien technology?

-It's pronounced some "koind," William. -HENRY: Oh, right.

Some "koind" of alien technology.

That's the alien pronunciation.

(laughing)

NARRATOR: An unmanned aerial vehicle

hurtles across the sky.

It travels at supersonic speeds,

spitting fire,

launching deadly missiles,

programmed to seek and destroy.

The effect is devastating,

high-tech warfare at its most lethal.

But what could be a page

stolen from a U.S. military black project

is actually a description written down

over 2,500 years ago

in the sacred Hindu text

known as the Mahabharata.

COPPENS: When it comes to the ancient Indian accounts,

they're really eyewitness testimony

of the gods fighting.

CHILDRESS: When you read the ancient Hindu epics,

they talk about horrific weapons:

missiles and atomic weapons.

Massive laser weapons

that are melting and devastating entire cities.

TSOUKALOS: I refuse to think that our ancestors

came up with these stories out of thin air.

When writing was first invented,

they wrote down their history.

The first things that were ever written down

were actual events.

NARRATOR: How is it that some of the earliest

written accounts of warfare

describe sophisticated weaponry

that humans wouldn't develop

for thousands of years?

For the answer, ancient astronaut theorists

point to numerous descriptions of deadly weapons

found throughout the Mahabharata--

many strikingly similar to those used by the military today.

One example are the incendiary weapons

wielded by Vishnu,

which are specially equipped to find their targets.

SHIMKADA: Vishnu has a flying guided missile, the Narayanastra.

And once it is launched,

it will destroy everything that is moving.

So, you know, according to the description,

it is a motion-detecting weapon,

which is pretty much like our modern weaponry.

There is also a weapon that is heat-seeking.

ROBERT DICKMAN: Heat-seeking is a very effective way of finding something.

You would fire a missile from behind one aircraft

at an aircraft in front of you,

specifically targeted against the hot engine.

And then you were able to move off from behind the airplane

and the heat-seeker would still be able to find the target.

I am aware

that there are forces of nature.

You've got thunder, lightning,

earthquakes.

But how would you go from witnessing that

to a description of heat-seeking missiles?

NARRATOR: In addition to guided missiles,

the Mahabharata is filled with accounts

of other sophisticated weapons wielded by the gods.

In the Mahabharata,

46 different types of weapon are described.

And each one has a specific function.

The Pashupatastra is a weapon that actually multiplies

into seven different arrows.

So then it hits seven different targets at the same time.

Salwa is an anti-god.

He can make his vehicle disappear.

So, we're talking about a flying object that is stealth.

He also can put people into sleep.

So we're perhaps talking about nerve gas.

CHILDRESS: They talk about weapons that are so high tech

that it could only be from extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: But of all the weapons described in the Mahabharata,

perhaps the most deadly was a device called the Brahmastra.

A weapon that the texts warned was never to be used.

Brahmastra is described as the ultimate weapon.

Once it is launched,

it will simply burn everything.

So it will incinerate the entire universe.

We're talking about a nuclear blast

100-fold magnitude of the bomb that we have seen

or experienced in our own times.

So, never be used.

And yet, someone was going to make

use of that Brahmastra.

So, that's the dilemma

that the books talks about in the Mahabharata.

India now has a rocket program,

and one of their rockets is called Shakti.

Shakti means "goddess energy."

This is also another divine weapon.

Indians are now sort of going back to their text

or their mythology and they're reliving it

by their modern technology.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that alien beings visiting the earth

thousands of years ago

dealt with the same issues of nuclear annihilation

that humans are dealing with today?

And might the deadly weapons currently

being deployed by the world's military

really be recreations of weapons first used on Earth

by extraterrestrials in the ancient past?

Perhaps.

But then it should also be possible

to predict mankind's military future

by searching through still more ancient texts.

NARRATOR: Dwarka.

Northwest India, 1983.

Marine archeologist Dr. S.R. Rao

begins a ten-year underwater exploration just off the coast

of this ancient fishing town.

And what he finds is stunning.

Starting at 20 feet beneath the surface of the ocean

are sandstone walls,

cobblestone streets,

and further evidence of what once was

a prosperous seaport.

At Dwarka, what has been found so far

under the ocean is incredibly tantalizing.

For instance, there's this huge wall,

estimated about 580 meters long.

So, this is not insignificant.

And this would suggest that this was

a sophisticated dwelling area.

NARRATOR: Further underwater excavations

and geological evidence indicate

the ruins are part of a city that suddenly became

submerged in 1443 BC.

The discovery of these ruins is a major archeological find.

But for some, even more significant

is where the ruins were found.

For centuries, the modern-day city of Dwarka

was thought by many Hindus to be the Dwarka described

in the Mahabharata as the ancient kingdom

of the god Krishna.

According to the text, during the Kurukshetra War,

a rival to Krishna, Lord Salwa,

attacked Dwarka from a flying chariot,

raining down weapons of mass destruction

that lit up the sky.

He actually flew over Dwarka

using his chariot,

and he started bombarding the city of Dwarka,

throwing down all kinds of weapons.

Finally, Krishna employs his own incredible weapon

and blows the thing out of the sky.

It says in the scripture

that Lord Salwa's flying craft itself

comes smoldering out of the sky

and crashes to the earth.

This suggests that there was machines

involved in the war, machines that could fly.

Shortly after the great war, Krishna is killed.

And the city-- this magnificent city

built on land that came out of the sea--

sank back into the ocean again.

It only existed during the time that Krishna lived there.

NARRATOR: Most historians dismiss this "war of the gods" as folklore.

But could these underwater ruins be evidence

that the ancient Hindu texts are based in actual history?

And it seems to confirm the ancient myths,

the ancient legends.

They have a basis in reality.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists suggest

further evidence can be found at Mahabalipuram,

an ancient port city

located along India's southeastern coast.

According to ancient stories,

six of seven pagodas that once stood

at Mahabalipuram were lost

due to a great deluge sent to destroy the city

by the Hindu god Indra.

Just as in the case of Dwarka,

historians and archeologists

dismissed the story of the missing six temples

as myth.

But on December 26, 2004,

a massive tsunami caused water levels

to temporarily drop,

exposing a number of mysterious-looking formations

along the shoreline.

Upon closer inspection, they were found

to be man-made structures.

And quite possibly the ruins

of the lost pagodas of Mahabalipuram.

Archeologists went diving

into this area and also found that there was,

basically, a sunken city there.

And so this would indicate that the legends

are really correct about this place.

That, in fact, it was destroyed in some kind of a flood,

just as the legends said.

NARRATOR: If recent archeological finds have proven

that the city of Krishna and the Seven Pagodas of Mahabalipuram

really did exist,

then might that mean that the stories

of these sites being attacked from the sky are true as well?

Perhaps the answer can be found

by examining the many ancient stone structures

of Mahabalipuram called rathas.

All over Mahabalipuram there are these towerlike structures.

They're called rathas.

"Rathas" can be translated with

"sky city," "house of the gods"

or even "sky ship."

LAYNE LITTLE: These are temples.

But, simultaneously, they are seen as being

movable vehicles in which

the gods can come to Earth,

can come to the presence of the worshippers.

You'll see that there are all these little--

they're called kudo.

They're little windows that are shaped like horseshoes.

And even in those little windows, you'll see,

peering out, the faces of the gods.

In many temples throughout India

you'll actually see gigantic wheels

added as a motif on the base of these temples

just to remind the worshippers that these are moving chariots.

They were the vimanas of the gods.

The stone structures themselves are replicas

of the machines that our ancestors witnessed.

NARRATOR: Do the ruins off the coast of Dwarka and Mahabalipuram,

along with the stone temples and carvings found throughout India,

provide a physical record of the advanced warfare

described in the ancient Hindu texts?

And if so, were these wars

waged between opposing factions of extraterrestrial beings?

Perhaps further clues can be found by examining

the historical records of ancient Mesopotamia.

One interesting thing we see in ancient stories

is weather manipulation.

And we have stories of the gods creating earthquakes

and tornados and great storms that turn the tide of a battle.

TSOUKALOS: And floods.

I mean, one of the most famous ancient stories

of weather being used as a weapon

has to be the account of the great flood in the Bible.

And by the way, there are some geologists

who now believe that that was a historical event.

Right, and we talked about weather manipulation

back in 2012 in "Aliens and Mega-Disasters."

NARRATOR: In 1996,

the United States Air Force commissioned a secret study

called the 2025 Report.

In it, the military examined the feasibility

of combat capabilities and tactics in the year 2025.

One of the areas that was seen as ripe for research,

exploitation and development was the modification

of the weather as a tool of warfare.

People might think the idea

that we can weaponize the weather is something

just straight out of science fiction,

the idea we could pulverize whole nations

just by modifying and exploiting the weather.

But this is a verifiable report

that is now in the public domain.

So we do know that government and military bodies

are significantly researching weaponizing the weather.

Well, one of the big advantages of using weather as a weapon

is that it's really difficult to prove who attacked you.

The other thing is that weather itself can cause

a heck of a lot of more damage than weapons can.

You could have, for instance, a powerful thunderstorm

that could go all the way across the U.S.

And cause, basically, nuclear-level destruction

all the way across a huge swath.

There have been many attempts to control

the weather during warfare,

and one of the most famous attempts was in Vietnam.

In which there was a real effort to seed the clouds

over the Ho Chi Minh trail and create torrential rains.

By flooding the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong supply lines,

it would reduce their utility and choke off supplies

to guerillas in the south.

So certainly, we've had success in seeding clouds.

NARRATOR: If the weather can be manipulated

by the military to produce powerful storms

and even catastrophes,

is this only a recent innovation?

Or is there evidence of the weaponized use

of weather in the ancient past?

Tales of a great flood destroying the world

can be found in the earliest myths

of many ancient cultures across the globe.

Both the Hebrew Bible and the Islamic Quran

describe an epic flood in the tale of Noah's Ark.

God was unhappy with the people for their sinful ways,

and as a kind of punishment

and, also, an act of purification,

sent the great deluge.

Most living things

would die in this, except for a few birds and fish.

But he told Noah very specifically

how to build a craft that could survive the storm.

WILSON: Noah is to collect pairs

of the air-breathing animals on Earth,

and he packs these animals and his family into the Ark,

and then it rains for 40 days and 40 nights

and floods the entire Earth,

and all air-breathing animals and people are killed.

NARRATOR: In ancient Mesopotamia,

a similar story of a catastrophic flood

was chiseled into clay tablets dating to 2000 BC.

Known as the Epic of Gilgamesh,

this early Sumerian poem describes angry gods

that send a great flood to destroy mankind

while allowing only a chosen few to survive.

BRAMLEY: The gods-- they'd created humanity to perform

whatever labor they were supposed to do,

but what happened was that,

according to the old Mesopotamian stories,

human beings just started causing too much trouble.

They became noisy, they became rebellious,

and it was just time to wipe them out.

And that's actually what's reported

in those old creation stories.

NARRATOR: But did such stories of great floods engulfing the world

merely spring from man's imagination?

Or were they real?

If so, might such devastation have had an otherworldly origin,

as ancient astronaut theorists believe?

REDFERN: If the human race in the early 21st century

is now weaponizing the weather,

why shouldn't aliens from some faraway world

have already developed it?

If ancient aliens were able

to weaponize the weather,

then I don't think we can rule out the idea

that, possibly, some of these great ancient floods

may not have been the work of gods

but could have been the work of highly-advanced

technological aliens actually seeking

to potentially obliterate the human race.

GRAHAM HANCOCK: There are more than a thousand different flood myths

from cultures all around the world.

And the tendency has been for archaeologists to say

that that's simply because people's fantasies

work in the same way.

But I honestly think there's a much simpler explanation

for why the flood myth is so universal.

I think it's a memory of what happened

at the end of the Ice Age.

What's much more mysterious

is that, coupled with these memories of global devastation,

there are also memories of almost godlike beings

with incredible powers and abilities

who were caught up in that cataclysm.

The deluge stories are really very interesting.

What they all say is that the angels,

the gods, whatever we want to call them today--

they basically just got tired of humanity,

where there's a wanton intention to wipe out

or thin out, the human race.

Right there, we have a perfect example

that maybe the extraterrestrials

were unhappy with Homo sapiens,

and it is possible that they then created

some type of a catastrophe,

some flood, to eliminate mankind.

But it's also possible

that benevolent extraterrestrials

warned us about an impending catastrophe

so that not everyone would be destroyed.

NARRATOR: Could the mythic floods of the ancient past

really have been the result of extraterrestrial influence?

Or is it possible,

as some ancient astronaut theorists contend,

that aliens may have actually helped mankind survive?

When we talk about weapons,

we have to remember, weapons can be used to attack,

but they can also be used to defend.

So, when we carry a sword, we also carry a shield.

Right, and the essence of the ancient astronaut theory

is that the extraterrestrials want us humans to thrive.

So, in my opinion,

these technologies that were given to us

could be used both for protection

and our benefit.

And, you know, scientists have discovered

some bizarre things out in space

that are actually protecting our planet.

And we talked about this in an Ancient Aliens episode

from 2015.

LAUNCH CONTROL: Five, four, three,

two, one.

Ignition sequence start and liftoff.

NARRATOR: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

August 30, 2012.

NASA launches two probes into space

in order to study the Van Allen radiation belts

a pair of donut-shaped particle zones that surround the Earth.

After two years of collecting data,

NASA scientists discover a surprising phenomenon:

the Van Allen belts are operating as a protective dome,

shielding the Earth from dangerous radiation.

Our planet is constantly flooded with particles

from space that are charged

that, if they made it through the atmosphere,

would actually be quite damaging radiation to life.

But because of the Van Allen belt

and the combination of magnetic fields

and charged particles already there,

incoming charged particles are sent on curved paths

that safely protect the Earth and we don't get hit by them.

The Van Allen radiation belt is

one of the most phenomenal scientific phenomena

to be discovered in recent times.

One of the things that's so shocking about it

is that it's changing and mutating

as if it's intelligently directed.

The Van Allen belts may be an advanced technology

that we still don't really understand.

A technology that actually is blocking

not just natural cosmic particles

from the sun from coming in...

...but potentially protecting the Earth

from extraterrestrial weapons

that might use some sort of particle beam technology,

from ever being able to make its way in here.

NARRATOR: Were the Van Allen belts

designed by extraterrestrial beings

to protect mankind from other hostile alien factions?

Might there really be

an extraterrestrial defense system

protecting the Earth from attack?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and suggest further evidence that there is an alien faction

policing Earth's airspace can be found

by examining modern-day UFO crashes.

In 2005,

UFO researcher Ryan Wood published a book

chronicling 74 instances of strange objects

falling from the sky dating back to 1897.

As proof that these crashes took place,

he cites official documents, eyewitness reports,

and even physical evidence.

PAUL HELLYER: In Ryan Woods book Majic Eyes Only,

he lists all of these crashes,

and I think that the U.S. has been involved

in the retrieval of the vast majority,

doesn't matter where they are.

We had one crash north of Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada,

and our regular people that go

and investigate aerial crashes went out there

and were greeted with American troops

pointing guns at them.

And they contacted Ottawa

and were told, "Well, let the Americans have it."

NOORY: We've had some great stories of crashes.

Roswell, Cape Girardeau, Missouri,

they're all over the place.

And you say to yourself,

"How could they crash when they have

that kind of technology?"

CHILDRESS: You've got to wonder how extraterrestrials,

with all of their advanced super technology

would then just crash.

It would seem that

something else is really going on here.

Perhaps we have the extraterrestrials

themselves battling it out over our skies.

Is it possible that even now, warring factions

of extraterrestrial so-called "gods" are,

in fact, duking it out over what happens on Earth?

And wars that we see in ancient texts,

like the Mahabharata or the Bible

could be still playing out in our skies as we speak.

NARRATOR: Could we really be at the center

of an extraterrestrial conflict

that dates back to before the dawn

of human civilization on Earth?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and suggest

that our survival may be dependent

upon an ancient defense system

that has existed for thousands of years

right beneath our feet.

NARRATOR: Yakutia, Russia. 1854.

In a desolate region of Siberia

known as the Valley of Death...

...geographer and natural scientist

Richard Karl Maak leads a scientific expedition

of the Russian Geographical Society

into the Vilyuy River basin.

In his journal, Maak writes that he and his team encountered

several large and mysterious metallic objects

embedded in the Earth

that the local hunters referred to as "cauldrons."

Additional accounts were reported

throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

According to descriptions,

these large metallic domes that protrude from the ground

each measure between 20 and 30 feet in diameter.

Their existence is also supported

by the legends of the local Yakut people,

who say that over the years,

the cauldrons would periodically open up and send

fireballs into the sky.

STONEHILL: What happens is that an object would fly out

from under the ground and intercept

an incoming celestial body...

...be it a bolide,

a meteor, anything that can really damage our planet.

It's like somebody put in

an automatic station programmed to take out

a celestial body that can cause us tremendous damage

and maybe to end life on Earth.

NARRATOR: On June 30, 1908,

a fireball was seen streaking across the sky

over the Tunguska River in rural Siberia

followed by a massive explosion.

It was the same area

where these mysterious sunken cauldrons

are said to be located.

Twenty years later,

when the Soviet military examined the area,

they reported finding flattened trees

for miles around the blast site,

but no crater.

STONEHILL: A Soviet military officer came up with an idea,

Aleksandr Kazantsev, in 1940s,

that this was an alien ship,

a UFO that came into the atmosphere

of our planet and exploded.

Others took up this idea.

But where he came up with it,

it's very hard to say,

because secrecy is all over Russia.

NARRATOR: Is it possible the cauldrons serve

as a type of antiaircraft weapon against space-based threats?

It's possible that the Earth has been equipped

with some sort of hyper-advanced technology

that is actually keeping us all safe.

And that whoever won these ancient extraterrestrial wars--

who may in fact be our progenitors--

put that there so that their offspring

would be protected from whoever their enemies had been

many thousands of years ago.

NARRATOR: Some ancient astronaut theorists suggest

that if there is an extraterrestrial

conflict over humanity,

it may be due to the fact

that certain alien factions consider humans a threat.

They propose that the point mankind has reached today

is predicted in the same Sanskrit texts

that documented these ancient alien wars.

CHILDRESS: The ancient Hindu texts tell us

that we are in the very last

of four stages of the planet.

And that stage is called Kali Yuga.

And Kali Yuga is a time of strife

and terrible activities, and of evil.

And it may be that the extraterrestrials

are really monitoring us

to see how we can handle this very stressful period.

HELLYER: There are conflicts in the skies.

There are different species with different agendas.

I'm sure that we are regarded as a potential threat.

They would assume that eventually we'll be traveling

around the cosmos

and it's something that must go through their collective minds,

that these are warlike people

and consequently we're gonna have to keep an eye on them.

Now, for the first time,

I think that the future of the species

is at stake.

That's how deeply I feel.

There are lessons to be learned.

And we have to learn them now,

we have to learn them very, very quickly.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that extraterrestrial beings

have been fighting for control of planet Earth

for thousands of years?

And could the outcome of this dispute

ultimately be determined,

not by the alien combatants but by humans?

Perhaps we are on the verge

of reaching a defining moment in our evolution,

a turning point that will lead

either to our ascension or our extermination.

It seems like our modern military is

just catching up with these weapons

described in these ancient texts.

And then, this whole idea

of what's happened in the past is happening again.

So, we have these great wars in ancient times.

And it's like we're repeating history.

And it's as if we're not learning from history at all.

And look at us,

we're doing the exact same thing as 5,000 years ago.

And it may be that this is part of an extraterrestrial test.

We're gonna give you this technology.

Now we want to see what you do with it.

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